Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

William Heard, of Taliaferro county, Ga., who is twenty-years old, is said to weigh but sixty pounds. John Howells, the novelist's son, was the only American who passed the examination for admission to the Paris School of Fine Arts this year. Gen. O. O. Howard, though only one-handed, is said to be able to open and handle a letter with as much facility as any aide upon his staff. The King of the Gilbert Islands, Telburimon, weighs 300 pounds. His son, the Crown Prince, is destined to be a still greater ruler than his father.

Prof. Elisha Gray was once a blacksmith’s apprentice and has a rusty wrought-iron fire shovfel kept in the corner of his library to prove it. He pounded the shovel into shape on an Ohio anvil early in the fifties. Max Judd, the new Consul-General for Vienna, is a fine chess-player. If he is unmarried he will have excellent opportunities to ‘‘mate” there. There are few prettier womon anywhere than the black-eyed blondes of Vienna. William Ordway Partridge, the Boston sculptor, is a young mau thirty-one years of age. hut, has already established such a reputation that his price of $27,000 for the equestrian statue of Garfield is considered a very reasonable one. The death in Naples of Christian Joachim Mohn deprives the world of its greatest linguist since the days of Mezzofanti. Mohn had an acquaintance with more than sixty languages, most of them Oriental. He was of Norwegian birth and was eighty-five years old. Frederick Douglass is negotiating for the purchase of “Tho Villa”, the fine country-house erected by Col. Richard France, near Easton, Md. The estate is one of the finest in Talbot county, and the mansion house is occupied now by Simeon Brady, of New York. Oliver Wendell Holmes prolongs life by conforming strictly to rigid rules of health and diet. Perhaps the late Dr. Peabody, of Harvard, would have lived longer, if he had pursued the same course, but his physical well-being gave him little concern. He used to say: “I have never troubled myself about my health, but have taken things as they came.” In the prime of manhood he was rugged and strong, and even in old age nis strength remained well preserved.